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Army leaders have confirmed that slain Spc. Vanessa Guillen was sexually harassed by a supervisor in her unit, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood. A lengthy investigation directed by Gen. Michael X. Garrett, commander of U.S. Army Forces Command, revealed that Guillen was harassed by a supervisor in a unit orderly room and in the field during training in 2019, about nine or 10 months before her disappearance. Investigators, however, did not find a connection between the sexual harassment and...

Army’s new night vision goggles give soldiers firepower in smoke, dust, and dark Abraham Mahshie © Provided by Washington Examiner As the sun fell behind the volcanic mountains during a recent exercise on the island of Oahu, home of the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team at Schofield Barracks, soldiers were actually able to see their targets more clearly — just in augmented reality. Army Futures Command’s latest modernization effort, enhanced night vision goggles-binocular...

AUSTIN, Texas (April 27, 2021) — Austin startup Apptronik has created a robotic arm resulting from an innovative project model to increase how fast artillery pieces fire and are resupplied. The company will demonstrate the potentially game-changing arm on April 30 at its Stonehollow Drive facility. Austin-based Army Applications Laboratory (AAL), a subordinate organization of Army Futures Command (AFC), ran the Army’s first-ever cohort program for solution development, from ...

The Army Upgrades its Air Defense Capabilities With an Eye to the Future Share This: Asian Military Review In an effort to update and upgrade its air defense systems, the U.S. Army delivered the first four operational Stryker anti-aircraft vehicles.  The 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (5-4 ADA), under the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, is the first battalion in the Army to test, receive, and field the Mobile Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) system. The 5-4 ADA ...

JADC2 Strategy Nearing Completion, Official Says shulz/iStock.com email April 22, 2021 10:00 AM ET Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall said the strategy has been briefed to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the deputy secretary of defense. The Defense Department is in the final stages of work on its strategy to connect sensors from each military service under a unified network, according to the top project official on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Both Gen. Mark Mi...

Project Convergence: America goes to virtual war with China ANI | Updated: Apr 16, 2021 06:26 IST Washington DC [US], April 16 (ANI): Amid the rising tensions with China, US Armys Project Convergence war games is set to hold operations in a transcontinental scenario - one meant to replicate the vast distances of the Western Pacific and the technological challenges of modern war, Asian Times reports. Project Convergence is a campaign of learning to pursue an...

Army Futures celebrates grand opening of Army Software Factory Drew Knight Replay Video UP NEXT The U.S. Army Futures Command on Thursday hosted a ceremony celebrating the opening of the Army Software Factory at Austin Community Colleges Rio Grande Campus. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the 20th chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, was in attendance. Milley is the nations highest-ranking officer who serves as the principal military advisor to the president, secretary of defense an...

The Chinook touched down, conjuring a cloud of swirling sand and dust around it. U.S. Army Lieutenant Nate Bethea ran from its rear bay with his head down and immediately took cover flat against the ground as small arms fire popped from the village around him. It was July 2009, and Bethea was part of an airborne unit searching for Private Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who had walked off an outpost in Afghanistan and been captured by Taliban insurgents.  Bethea was leading a group of soldi...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 08, 2021 at 12:02 PM An 82nd Airborne soldier trains with a Black Hornet mini-drone before deploying to Afghanistan. WASHINGTON: How do you make a platoon of foot soldiers ten times more effective? If your company has a new technology that might help, Army Futures Command wants to know by May 5th. That’s the deadline to submit ideas in AI, networking, and robotics for the Army’s “10x platoon” experiment, which is trying out tech to upgrade the fu...

In latest tests, Iron Dome intercepted and destroyed simulated existing and emerging threats, including simultaneous interception of multiple UAVs. Rafael Advanced Defense System and the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) have completed further advanced tests of the Iron Dome air and short-range missile defence system. Tests involving Israeli Air Force (IAF) personnel at a site in southern Israel ‘demonstrated a significant upgrade of the system’s technological capabilities’, Rafa...